* Steve Revilak (st...@srevilak.net) wrote: > $ wc -l foo.txt > 2 foo.txt > $ ls -l foo.txt > 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 srevilak users 58 Jun 13 20:20 foo.txt > $ ls -lu foo.txt > 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 srevilak users 58 Jun 13 20:23 foo.txt
Many thanks for your investigative work, Steve, I think I know exactly what the problem is know! I'm doing this inside a VM and have just confirmed that my provider is mounting the / partition using "noatime", that might be why! When I do the above on my machine I get: $ date >> foo.txt $ ls -l foo.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jun 14 07:30 foo.txt $ ls -lu foo.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jan 1 00:00 foo.txt $ wc -l foo.txt 2 foo.txt $ ls -l foo.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jun 14 07:30 foo.txt $ ls -lu foo.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 kjaleel kjaleel 58 Jan 1 00:00 foo.txt So, the atime is never changed. This might explain it. Perhaps I should speak to my hosting provider and request they remove the option or I can probably 'remount' it myself without the "noatime" option.
